accents of the damned colonials, further diaries of a pseudo-lunger

[burntcopper]

The cough's back. Yay. (not that it ever really goes away...) Deep barky version with occasional wheezing, no fits. Slight bit of blood, or at least taste of blood, tiny bit of phlegm. Already got one 'ah, the tuberculosis is back' from Gregor. Someday I really should get an indepth check, only it's a wee bit difficult to get that kind of thing on the NHS if you're basically healthy and your previous doctor never saw any reason to comment. (Dr Keast having known me since I was in junior school and having seen me through bronchitis and expecting it as part of me getting even slightly run-down) Going in and saying 'er, I have a cough that's a symptom of being run-down which becomes almost non-existent if I live in a really damp area, otherwise they're completely healthy, can I have them checked out? I've had my TB injection twice.' would almost certainly be seen as taking the piss...

Other question, for the colonials : Was wondering what the upper class accent situation is like in the US. (not that it in any way counts as actual upper class - we only just count the British Royal Family as upper class) Excluding the South (who have an accent all to themselves) is there a specific upper-class accent, like there is in the UK, which mostly results from mixing with only one class and everyone going to the same schools, or does it vary from region to region? Pretty much all the people you see on film who're portrayed as upper-class (by which I mean old money - if you're new money you can never be more than jumped-up middle or working class, but your children are allowed to be upper class - is that the same in the snobbier classes in the colonies?) seem to be theoretically from New York or Maine. And they all have what sounds like the same accent.

Comments

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Take that cough to your GP! Really, no NHS GP I've ever had would have a problem looking into a chronic/persistent cough.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

gah. my problem is that I'd feel like a time waster - having had it viewed as 'heather's irritating quirk' my entire life by everyone who knows me, which is almost certainly compounded by me going 'oh, ignore it, it just means I'm not in perfect health'. Not to mention the fact that my current surgery runs on the 'phone up in the morning/afternoon of the day you want an appointment' system.